* – well, I finished dead last in my fantasy football league. Fucking kill me. Eli Manning – who I took with the 2nd overall pick of my league’s draft – did absolute dick for me practically all year long. Hakeem Nicks was injured pretty much all year long. When I traded for Ben Roethlisberger in an attempt for better QB production, he promptly got injured. Yeesh!

Next year’s gotta be better… right?

* – now, my Falcons on the other hand…

13 – 3. Home field advantage throughout the playoffs.

YEAH BABY!!!

* – yes, I saw The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey on opening night (DUH!:) ). I liked it. I thought it was a good movie. There were many deviations from the book, and several of them were nothing more than an excuse for Peter Jackson to show off his CGI chops, but I still enjoyed the movie. If you’d like to give the soundtrack a whirl without actually buying it, click here.

* – this is a perfect example of what free market capitalism can do. A couple of guys who had an idea and ran with it. It cooks your food when you’re camping. It charges your gadgets with the energy it creates from cooking your food. It cooks your food and charges your gadgets from being fueled with kindling. It’s fairly inexpensive. It’s eco-friendly.

And there’s not a multi-million dollar federal loan to be found anywhere. Imagine that.

* – not that it will affect the medical industry at all, though. Oh, wait…

* – yeah, I could see Obama doing this back in 1620…

* – speaking of the Annointed One, he won re-election, in case you hadn’t heard. Yippee-fucking-skip. Do I think we’re fucked? Yup, yup, I do. And for those Libs who think I’m overreacting and being a sore loser, I’d ask you to remember how some of your heroes reacted when Bush was re-elected.

Say what?!?!?! How’re you gonna do that, Harry? You finally gonna pass a fucking budget? You know, that little thing you’re required to do by law? The most basic function of your political body? The thing you have done in over 1300 days?

* – I hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving and a Merry Christmas. I wish you the very very best New Year.

Oh, and P.S. – yes, I am very much aware of the Sandy Hook tragedy that took place a couple of weeks or so ago. Yes, I’m familiar with all the debate raging about it now in regards to gun control. Yes, I had many articles bookmarked and ready to be linked to to support my side of the gun control argument. I obviously chose not to use them.

Why?

Twenty-six people are dead. Twenty of them six- or seven-year-old children. I refuse to cheapen and trvialize their memories by using them to help me try to win an argument.

Here endeth the lesson.

This is the closest I will come to forming an opinion on this issue at this time:

About me…

Born 7/21/69. Married 7/14/01. Father of one child - a son born 12/22/04. Living in ME. Has a Bachelor's Degree in English and a Master's Degree in Education. Passionate football fan, JRR Tolkien fan, and conservatism fan.